Blue-gray tanager
| Blue-gray tanager | |
|---|---|
| A blue-gray tanager in San Miguel, Alajuela, Costa Rica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Thraupis |
| Species: | T. episcopus |
| Binomial name | |
| Thraupis episcopus (Linnaeus, 1766) | |
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The blue-gray tanager (Thraupis episcopus) is a medium-sized South American songbird of the tanager family, Thraupidae. Its range is from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil, all of the Amazon Basin, except the very south. It has been introduced to Lima (Peru) and Florida (USA). On Trinidad and Tobago, this bird is called blue jean.